Government, Political Science, Law

Dissertations and Theses Global

Description

From the vendor site: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."

FDsys Federal Digital System

Description

FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications. FDsys contains almost 50 collections of Government information ranging from Congressional materials, to Presidential materials, and materials from Federal agencies. Through FDsys, you are able to search and browse for documents and publications. Browsing is offered by collection, Congressional committee and date. Fdsys offers downloading of full-text documents.

Google Scholar

Description

Search for peer-reviewed academic papers across many disciplines found in many different sources.

WorldCat Dissertations

Description

A database of all the dissertations and theses available through WorldCat.

WorldCat

Description

Millions of records for books and other materials worldwide. Identify resources not available in the Juneau library system in WorldCat and order through interlibrary loan.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements

Description

Contains abstracts of federal government environmental impact statements including the following subject areas: air transportation, defense programs, energy, hazardous substances, land use, parks-refuges-and-forests, research and development, roads and railroads, urban and social programs, water.

Digital Pipeline

Description

Formerly known as 'Databases for Alaskans', the Digital Pipeline is a grouping of databases for Alaskan citizens to search for information from articles and selected reference sources. Look under the subject categories, or click the link to 'List of resources by name'.

Federal Depository Library Program Basic Collection (FDLP)

Description

Links to the online versions of essential government documents. Includes the daily Federal Register and Congressional Record, the Budget of the U.S. Government, the Occupational Outlook Handbook, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, and many more.

NewsBank

Description

NewsBank is comprised of "Archive of Americana" historical collections and "Access World News". In Access World News Collection explore issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Search diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
You may also go directly to search: "America's News Magazines", Alaska News, The World, or The United States.

Military and Government Collection

Description

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

JSTOR

Description

An archive of entire runs of 19th and 20th century scholarly journals. Disciplines of journals include African American Studies, Anthropology, Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, Education, History, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, and Statistics. Page images of journal contents may be viewed, printed, and downloaded.

GPO (U.S. Government Publications)

Description

Contains more than 520,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government. Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, judiciary materials, and documents issued by executive departments.

ebrary (Electronic Book Collection)

Description

The ebrary electronic book collection has more than 23,000 full-text electronic books in the subject areas of: Business & Economics, Computers & Technology, Humanities, Education, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and over 800 titles in the Spanish Language. In addition, ebrary features maps searchable within the Advanced search screen.
Browse the collection by subject or use basic and advanced searching. Limited printing of ebrary ebooks is available. Create your own account with ebrary to take advantage of advanced features. The ebrary reader must be downloaded to computers accessing ebrary for the first time.

CQ Researcher

Description

The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Every 12,000-word report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts -- round out each report.